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lundi 22 septembre 2025, 21:20
Notorious convicted felon and held liable for sexual assault, Donald Trump felt the journalists flying with him on Air Force One needed a reminder of what a giant narcissist he is. 'Fly safely. You know why I say that? Because I'm on the flight,' the Orange Menace said. —...
The Trump administration has outlined a plan that would put Oracle in charge of safeguarding TikTok’s recommendation system, a senior White House official said today. The proposal is designed to ease U.S. concerns that the app could be steered by Beijing, while keeping...
Version 6.0.0 of the RPM Package Manager has been released. Notable changes in this release include support for multiple OpenPGP signatures per package, the ability to update previously installed PGP keys, as well as support for RPM v4 and v6 packages. See the release notes...
Another creepy gazillionaire has bought his way into deciding what information to feed you and spying on what you watch, read, like, and share. The New York Times reports that Oracle, run by 81-year-old Larry Ellison, 'will oversee the security of Americans' data and...
College presidents' names from the mid-20th century sound remarkably interchangeable, as if assembled from an elite Anglo-Saxon name generator. Veteran NBC newsman Edwin Newman highlighted this curiosity in his 1974 book Strictly Speaking, noting how Columbia's Nicholas...
Writing in the New York Times, Barnard College president Laura Ann Rosenbury issued a plea for America to embrace extremist speakers like Charlie Kirk on college campuses: 'We Need More Like Him,' it goes, 'fostering dialogue' with 'civil discourse.' — Read the rest The...
Once upon a time, horses had horns, illness crept upon us, treatments were based on superstition, and lives were short. My, how things have changed. Today, you can be warned of early signs of sickness by your smartphone and other wearable devices, including the Apple Watch...
'If the government can force a network to pull a late-night show off the air and do so in plain view, it can do a shit of a lot worse,' John Oliver warned on his HBO show 'Last Week Tonight,' addressing the recent suspension of Jimmy Kimmel's ABC program. — Read the rest ...
Jerry Greenfield and Ben Cohen, the founders of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream, have never been quiet about the causes they believe in. Back in 2000, Choen and Greenfield sold Ben & Jerry's to the demonstrably unethical and financially sketchy company Unilever to the tune of $326...
They appeared in Breaking Bad. Robert Redford burned them down in Spy Games. William Shatner took a puff on one of them in an episode of the original Twilight Zone, and you can find them in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and while you're hanging out with your chooms in Cyberpunk...
I'm thrilled to learn that the theatre company Wakka Wakka is bringing its latest production, Dead as a Dodo, to my city, and I can't wait to go see it in October. On its website, Wakka Wakka describes itself as a 'critically acclaimed non-profit visual theatre company...
Buffalo Exchange, the iconic, original buy-sell-trade store that got its start in 1974 in Tucson, Arizona, announced yesterday on its social media accounts that the company's visionary founder, Kerstin Block, has died. They wrote that Block 'leaves behind an incredible...
Earlier this week, Sivan Apparel made their New York Fashion Week debut, and the show was filled with gorgeous designs and one of the most wonderfully diverse casts I've ever seen in a runway show. I didn't have the fortune to see it in person, but folks online have been...
October is almost here, which means it's finally acceptable to start getting into the halloween spirit. The Halloween Radio is a fun website that lets you stream spooky, fun, October-themed music. There's something for everyone on there, and it's free to use. — Read the rest...
Have you ever wanted to have a karaoke night with your friends, but wish you could sing along to a song while the actual music video plays in the background? This website called LyTube puts karaoke, sing-along style lyrics on top of any video you plug into the site. — Read...
In a recent episode of the First Person podcast we met with Stephen Kaufman, who has spent 25 years architecting solutions on behalf of Microsoft. Stephen told us that his defining characteristic is curiosity, and how his first memory was of taking things apart and putting ...
Watch a robot vacuum turn a completely dirty-covered floor into a clean one. At first, I thought the robot was painting the floor white. It turns out, the floor was just so dirty that it wasn't possible to tell what it looked like until cleaned. — Read the rest The post...
After researching the first commercial transistor computer, the British Metrovick 950, Nina Kalinina wrote an emulator, simple assembler, and some additional “toys” (her word) so we can enjoy this machine today. First, what, exactly, is the Metrovick 950? Metrovick 950, the...
Comedian Ben Palmer truly never misses. It's true that his oeuvre mostly consists of 'lying to people for comedic effect', whether it's pretending to be an AI to prank tech bros or pulling double duty at two scummy sales companies, but there's simply no one better at it. —...
I sure love living in a system that allows self-absorbed billionaires to waste endless resources on crowbarring tech no one wants or cares about into our lives. After the Metaverse was an abject failure and a good chunk of Meta AI staff were laid off, Facebook boss and...
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